[ Thanks to Jane
Walker for this link. ]
“No one wants an intruder in the corporate network, and one key
way to fight against intruders is to be able to detect them.“Intrusion detection and prevention services (IDS/IPS) are
broken down into two broad categories: network- and host-based
services. Network-based IDS/IPS (Snort, for example) detects and
potentially prevents network-borne attacks…”